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CDC disputes widespread ‘word ban’ reports

Racism is killing Black babies and their mothers, says NPR study

Twitter bans some white supremacists from their platform, but efforts still feel hollow

Puerto Rico governor orders review of Hurricane Maria death toll following discrepencies

Dennis Rodman wants to be America’s North Korea peace envoy because politics can’t get any weirder

FCC reverses net neutrality rules, but open internet advocates anticipate congressional, court, and user resistance

Fox News’ race baiting judge Jeanine Pirro is being sued by Deray Mckesson

Omarosa exit leaves Trump administration without a “token” Black diversity marker

Black voters ensure narrow margin of victory for Democratic Party in Alabama

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

White people aren’t owed your sympathy: Keaton Jones and his racist family scams 60K over the weekend

15-year-old girl who declined a grown man’s advances ID’d him as her shooter before her death

CVS and Aetna complete mega-merger, prompting fears of limiting customer choice

Lena Waithe set to join ‘Dear White People’ in Season 2

Lubiana Himid is the first Black woman artist to win England’s prestigious Turner Prize

Terry Crews indicts men in perpetuating a culture of sexual harassment

Golden Krust CEO and president Lowell Hawthorne found dead by suicide, with disputed motives

Actor Bambadjan Bamba reveals undocumented status: ‘We just can’t be scared anymore’

North Korea performs intercontinental missile test after the U.S. names it a sponsor of terrorism

SZA leads women Grammy nominees with 5, dripping Black Girl Magic everywhere

Brave 10-year-old Ronyde Christina Ponthieux records video plea to save Haitian protected status

Twitter is deleting white supremacists’ verification badges, but not their rhetoric

There’s an app to help Black teenage girls deal with stress

Cyntoia Brown is being failed by the justice system because she’s a black woman

Malcolm X’s daughters are launching a clothing line!

Singer and actress Della Reese dies at the age of 86

Jesmyn Ward becomes the 1st woman and Black author to win National Book Award for fiction twice

Lawyers for Korryn Gaines’ son file new claims against Baltimore police

Zimbabwean coup takes power from the Mugabe family

White supremacy remains global, just ask 60,000 gatherers at Polish pride event and Polish leadership who called it beautiful

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